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Keynote Address—The 21st Century Lawyer: Is There A Gap To Be Narrowed?, Robert Maccrate
Keynote Address—The 21st Century Lawyer: Is There A Gap To Be Narrowed?, Robert Maccrate
Washington Law Review
This law school symposium on the Twenty-First Century Lawyer reflects a fundamental shift in the focus of legal education within the academy—from law in the abstract toward the reality of law in the daily work of lawyers. While holding firm to their scholarly mission, law schools are giving increasing attention to the world of lawyer performance and the needs of their students to be prepared to participate effectively in the legal profession. The 1992 Report entitled Legal Education and Professional Development-An Educational Continuum, by a task force of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the …
Introduction: The Maccrate Report—Heuristic Or Prescriptive?, Wallace Loh
Introduction: The Maccrate Report—Heuristic Or Prescriptive?, Wallace Loh
Washington Law Review
There is a freight train gathering speed on the tracks of legal education, and it is called SSV—Statement of Skills and Values. This SSV stands as the centerpiece of the Report of the ABA Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap, better known as the MacCrate Report, named after its chair, Robert MacCrate. The MacCrate Report has ignited a rational debate on curricular reform that is becoming increasingly intense. Viewed broadly, SSV may represent the greatest proposed paradigm shift in legal education since Langdell envisioned legal education as the pursuit of legal science through the case …
On Teaching Professional Judgment, Paul Brest, Linda Krieger
On Teaching Professional Judgment, Paul Brest, Linda Krieger
Washington Law Review
To answer the question posed by the conveners of this symposium, of course there is a gap between legal education and the legal profession. There has always been one, and quite possibly it has widened somewhat in recent years, if for no other reason than that the world in which lawyers practice has changed so much while legal education has changed relatively little. The external changes include the internationalization of legal transactions, the centrality of technology to many aspects of practice, increased specialization driven by the proliferation and complexity of statutory and regulatory schemes, and the overloading of traditional systems …
Another "Postscript" To "The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession", Harry T. Edwards
Another "Postscript" To "The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession", Harry T. Edwards
Washington Law Review
"The Gap Between Legal Education and the Needs of the Profession," the subject of this symposium, is a matter about which I have had much to say over the past two years. In the October 1992 edition of the Michigan Law Review, I expressed my deep concern about "the growing disjunction between legal education and the legal profession," in an article with the same title.
Education For A Public Calling In The 21st Century, Phoebe A. Haddon
Education For A Public Calling In The 21st Century, Phoebe A. Haddon
Washington Law Review
A decade ago, an issue of the Association of American Law Schools' Journal of Legal Education was devoted to ruminations on selecting lawyers for the twenty-first century. Although some of the papers in the Journal issue offered congratulatory messages to legal educators and the Law School Admissions Council for their work, others more critically assessed legal education and the admissions process, warning of an impending "mid-life crisis" caused in part by an unreflective period of maturation. Focusing on two decades of "applicant explosion," affording the conscious creation of "a more intellectually elite profession,"' a number of the authors who submitted …
From Sink Or Swim To The Apprenticeship: Choices For Lawyer Training, Lucy Isaki
From Sink Or Swim To The Apprenticeship: Choices For Lawyer Training, Lucy Isaki
Washington Law Review
Our symposium today asks the question: Is there a gap in lawyer training to be narrowed? My answer is: Probably. Is it any greater than the gap that existed twenty or thirty years ago? I think not. Law schools are graduating women and men well prepared to begin the practice of law. True, there is much that new law school graduates do not yet know. But in a short time—two to three years—most new law graduates gain the skills and substantive knowledge needed to be successful.
Economic Reality Facing 21st Century Lawyers, Thomas D. Morgan
Economic Reality Facing 21st Century Lawyers, Thomas D. Morgan
Washington Law Review
Our predictions of future developments may be wrong, but if we do not at least think seriously about what skills these students will need to participate in the rapidly changing legal profession, we as legal educators will be certain to disserve both our students and their future clients.
Narrowing The Gap By Narrowing The Field: What's Missing From The Maccrate Report—Of Skills, Legal Science And Being A Human Being, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Narrowing The Gap By Narrowing The Field: What's Missing From The Maccrate Report—Of Skills, Legal Science And Being A Human Being, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Washington Law Review
I come here today, not to bury the MacCrate Report, but to criticize it, not for what it includes, although that is part of my critique, but for what it leaves out. I also want to situate my critique in the contentious intellectual history of legal education and legal scholarship, that, in my view, has too long polarized both the intellectual value and rigor of "law" (conceived of either as doctrine or theory) and "skills" (those nasty things that real lawyers have to do to express "the law" and represent clients). Among the most recent entries to this debate is …
Back To The Crib?, William B. Stoebuck
Back To The Crib?, William B. Stoebuck
Washington Law Review
First, let me note that this Rembe Lecture honors Toni Rembe, Esq., a distinguished graduate of this law school, class of 1960. Toni and I knew each other as fellow students and members of the Washington Law Review, since I was class of 1959. After graduating here, she took a Master of Laws in taxation at New York University in 1961. Then she joined the premier San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, where she has long been the head of the tax law division. Toni, who is a Seattle native, has maintained her ties to this city. …
Somewhere Farther Down The Line: Maccrate On Multiculturalism And The Information Age, Burnele V. Powell
Somewhere Farther Down The Line: Maccrate On Multiculturalism And The Information Age, Burnele V. Powell
Washington Law Review
A couple of months ago, sometime after I was invited by Symposium Editor Ruth Kennedy to participate in today's discussion, I got a telephone call from her. She wanted to know the title of my remarks. I, of course, had no idea, what I would entitle these remarks because I was still freshly in the throes of trying to write these remarks. Only moments before the phone rang, I had been preoccupied with several CDs that I had recently purchased and was thinking about the task ahead of me. It did occur to me, however, that there was something I …